Premier Thandi Modise is confident that the thousands of learners who missed school at 45 schools as a result of violent unrests in the North West province over the past week will be able to attend on Monday.
“The situation in Bloemhof, Bodibe village and Itsoseng is calm following our engagement with stakeholders and protestors who have agreed to give our interventions a chance. Regrettably the violence has cost much in terms of a life lost, destruction of private and public properties for which those behind the orchestrated violence should be held responsible,” Premier Modise said.
“The alleged involvement of senior leaders, municipal officials and looting of local shops by police during the violent unrest in Itsoseng needs to be investigated and those responsible brought to book,” emphasised Modise.
She said that the involvement of a core of political leaders that is reported to be the common thread coordinating and instigating the violence in the three areas including Khunotsoane outside Zeerust and Wolmaranstadt over the past week is worrisome.
“Those who have hijacked genuine community concerns to plunge our communities into chaos in pursuit of personal interests without regard for the future of the thousands of our children, the life lost and properties destroyed will have to face the full might of the law,” Premier Modise told over a thousand residents of Bodibe village and Itsoseng who had gathered at the Itsoseng Stadium.
In responding to issues raised by residents, Modise committed to deploy a team as from Saturday to investigate why the water reservoir built in the area is not functional.
She said that a comprehensive report on the provincial intervention in the municipality that will investigations into allegations of nepotism and irregular appointments and corruption related to installation of high mast lights and water metering contracts will be presented to residents in two weeks time.
Modise said that the provincial government will be instituting an investigation into water tankering across all municipalities in the province to uproot corruption related to water provision.
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